From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 17 14:18:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from slip1.raccoon.com (slip1.raccoon.com [165.90.135.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582131505B for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:18:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnl@raccoon.com) Received: from raccoon.com (dsl-ip145.networkiowa.com [165.90.140.145]) by slip1.raccoon.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA24469; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:08:42 -0500 Message-ID: <37B9C33A.7C21E8FC@raccoon.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:16:58 -0500 From: John Lengeling X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELL servers and FreeBSD References: <4.2.0.58.19990817140100.00ada6f0@216.67.12.69> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wish the other respondants were more accurate with their answers... FreeBSD will run the Dell PowerEdges, but... Here is my experience with PowerEdge 1300s. 1. Need at least FreeBSD 3.X to get support for the Adaptec onboard SCSI controller. AIC 7890. 6350s have the same onboard controller. 2. FreeBSD does not support the RAID controller that Dell sells. The PERC2 RAID controller. 3. I couldn't get the Sony CDROM drive to work under FreeBSD 3.1. I haven't tried it under 3.2. Most people just installed some other CDROM drive to get around the problem. Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > Just as a pre-emptive question: has anyone run into problems running > FreeBSD on any DELL servers? Namely, the PowerEdge 6350's. > > Thanks. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message